Background:

Every community has politics. Understanding those politics is important work effectively within a community. This activity helps student investigate politics within the open-source community.

Directions:

Read articles that discuss the organizational and institutional view of FOSS, The articles I use (ACMDL DOI: [1979742.1979835], [1859204.1859235], IEEEDL DOI: [10.1109/MS.2007.83]) discuss various things about use of FOSS, how communications in FOSS projects are organized and structured, and how FOSS projects have inherent politics. The outcomes of this activty is the production of a summary (extended abstract) address the research methods used to study these situations - this could be modified to address more pertinent aspects about the FOSS community.
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